Best Personal Relationship with a Mentor

A mentor is a person with more knowledge and sophistication in a particular area of expertise who shares this knowledge with someone less knowledgeable through a relationship. The person who learns from the mentor is a protégé. Together, the mentor and the protégé form a mentoring relationship.

Mentoring relationships are personal relationships in which neither partner can be substituted without significantly altering the relationship. Mentoring relationships can develop through mentoring programs or they can develop informally. Many long-term mentoring relationships are the result of informal mentoring relationships that develop into high-quality mentoring relationships. This entry discusses the ...